R I P Peter O Toole Quotes & Sayings

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. — Peter O'Toole

My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. — Peter O'Toole

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery. — Peter O'Toole

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace. — Peter O'Toole

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise. — Peter O'Toole

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am. — Peter O'Toole

Public crucifixion is no fun. — Peter O'Toole

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment. — Peter O'Toole

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it. — Peter O'Toole

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps. — Peter O'Toole

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot! — Peter O'Toole

There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. — Peter O'Toole

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. — Peter O'Toole

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs ... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone. — Peter O'Toole

My father was a racetrack bookie. — Peter O'Toole

I take whatever good part comes along. — Peter O'Toole

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act. — Peter O'Toole

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful. — Peter O'Toole

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. — Peter O'Toole

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man! — Peter O'Toole

I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget. — Michael Korda

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male. — Peter O'Toole

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines. — Peter O'Toole

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. — Peter O'Toole

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. — Peter O'Toole

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater - because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. — Peter O'Toole

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. — Peter O'Toole

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. — Anthony Quinn

What I like is bottomless flattery. — Peter O'Toole

I can make the best French toast. — Peter O'Toole

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back. — Peter O'Toole

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding. — Peter O'Toole